Kate Gross achieved many things in her short life, but she became best-known for her blog, "The Nuisance," which detailed her battle with colon cancer.
After achieving a First in English at Oxford University, she joined the civil service and - at the age of just 26 - became one of Downing Street's main advisers to Tony Blair for Prime Minister's Questions.
On meeting her for the first time and noticing how young she was, Mr Blair recalls her saying: "I'll do my job, and, provided that you do yours, we'll do just fine."
Within a year, she became Whitehall's youngest-ever female civil servant.
After Tony Blair's resignation in 2007, Ms Gross worked for his successor Gordon Brown and then left to work again with Mr Blair, this time in setting up a charity, the Africa Governance Initiative, which helps promote effective administration in the region.
It was at the end of a work trip to the US that Ms Gross began to feel unwell.
On returning home, she took herself to A&E and had emergency surgery that evening.
Just hours later, she was diagnosed with colon cancer, aged just 34.
Following her diagnosis, she began to write about her experiences in her blog, under the tagline "News from Kate's attic on life, and cancer. In that order."
She also wrote a book, Late Fragments: Everything I Wanted to Tell You About the Magnificence of Life, which was published in December.
Ms Gross - who had five-year-old twin boys - was married to Billy Boyle, a researcher who has developed a breathalyser to detect early-stage cancer.
On 11 December, she wrote about her illness taking hold, saying: "I have had this disease for over two years, but now I am drawing in like the December nights… In this new world my quest is for liveable days, pleasant and comfortable hours and moments of snatched happiness."
Kate Gross died at home on Christmas Day, aged 36.
In an entry on her blog, her mother wrote: "I'd like to say it was all peaceful. It was at the end, but not all the time."
Among the many tributes to her, Tony Blair wrote: "No one conquers death. But you can achieve a certain triumph over it.
"This Kate did, and how she did it is a lesson for those of us who knew her well and those of you who never knew her at all."
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